About

I am a research scientist focused in statistical and computational genetics and infectious disease epidemiology. Currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, my research interests include host-pathogen genetics, viral phylodynamics, networks, and machine learning methods for molecular epidemiology and public health. My current work utilizes social and spatial network analysis and phylogenetic models from viral sequencing data to understand the transmission dynamics of HIV and Hepatitis C virus among people who inject drugs in India. Other work, in Peru and Latin America, focuses on the genetic epidemiology of neglected tropical diseases and the genetic determinants of Chagas disease and chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy.